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Lust For Life – Post Punk Misfits P.E. Want To Be Your DOG And BOYFRIEND

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New sonic impulses…

22 October 2020

P.E is the band that emerged from the ashes of New York’s post punk band
Pill who joined forces with members from Eaters. Last March they released
their first, notable, full-length work called Person.

Now they follow that effort with a double A-side single. Two covers,
one by the Ramones and one by Iggy and his Stooges

“We started working on cover songs in preparation for the tour dates to support
our debut LP Person. ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ was the first one. ‘I Wanna Be Your
Boyfriend’ is the first fruit of our remote recording labor, the perfect foil, and flip-
side of desire to ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’. We dedicate these songs to all those looking
for a special cutie(s) in the midst of a global pandemic; we hope you find some
sweetness” said the band in a press statement.

Here’s their erotic take on I WANNA BE YOUR DOG.
It’s a sexy and saxy slo-mo version. Creepy and doggish,
sultry and Halloween-ish sounding like sonic foreplay.
Lust for life is the message.

Stream/buy single here…


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Also on Spotify…

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P.E.: Facebook

The Pill days (pic by Turn Up The Volume! Ghent, Belgium, 2019)

Saturday Sax Fever With New York City’s Swinging PILL Live In Belgium…

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PILL – Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium – 2 February 2019

Jangly rockers Parquet Courts call PILL (yes, double ‘l’) one of the best live bands around. The New York City foursome released their critically praised sophomore album SOFT HELL, last October. As part of a short European tour, the band played Belgium twice in eight days. After Brussels last week they landed in my hometown Ghent yesterday night. They were the perfect combo to make us all forget that it was a bloody freezing rainy Saturday.

Party time indeed, with the group’s saxophonist Benjamin Jaffe heating up the vivid hullabaloo from start to finish. PILL produces a sultry melting pot of sax disco, sax
funk, sax post-punk, sax jazz and sax soul. Add frontwoman Veronica Torres‘s both
sensual and determined vocal and bass performance, vigorous drums and bouncy
guitar licks and I felt as if I was witnessing a sort of thrashy postmodern Sly And The
Family Stone concert, particularly during the second swinging half of the set. Their politically tinted songs deal with the daily shit related to the alarming times they experience in the Divided States Of America, which in extension affects the whole
wide world. But instead of getting hopelessly depressed this quartet decided to soundtrack their concern about the current humanitarian crisis while having some
fun and creating positive energy to face today’s anxious reality. It keeps hope alive.
And I can guarantee you that PILL‘s approach definitely works. Here’s an idea of their
lively and turbulent spirit…

PILL: Facebook


Saturday sax schizophrenia….


This one is about that charlatan in the White House…


New York harmony…

Here’s new album
SOFT HELL…


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(concert pics by Turn Up The Volume!)